1349: "Because a great part of the people, and especially of workmen and servants, late died of the pestilence, many seeing the necessity of masters, and great scarcity of servants, will not serve unless they may receive excessive wages, and some rather willing to beg in idleness, than by labor to get their living"
i unironically really really want to work, i fucking hate not having money and relying on the doordash algorithm for hours, i mean i'm broke all this week because of a single fraudulent charge to my bank for fucks sake, and my parents constantly are passive aggressively telling me to get a 'real' job, turning evey single conversation i have with them to that topic, but nobody wants to hire a 30 year old college graduate with history and philosophy degrees for any of the available (i.e. retail or food service) jobs. they all want teenagers and the elderly that they can manipulate easily. any field my degrees are relevant in basically requires a teaching degree or a doctorate to get work so i'm basically fucked and never going to be able to get a stable job, but at least i have no student debt. my retirement plan is to die bravely in the water wars of the 2030's
yeah i'd love to have regular hours but all the "normal" jobs are ableist as fuck and require knowing a bunch of awful people to get in, or destroy my body/will to live.
Almost like people have never wanted to work and our ultimate goal should be to get unemployment as high as possible (while making sure everyone has a good life ofc). Also to be gay and go to space.
I will be checking this for myself, this is kinda like the "kids and their [insert modern media here]"
there's another good one like this about kids not reading, going back to e.g. newspapers on the train and nobody will talk to eachother and then ancient greeks "kids these days and their reading, nobody will ever remember anything!"
And if you go far back enough it's complaining that kids are reading instead of committing themselves to memorizing things by rote.
well i guess you didn't memorize my comment by rote either
That was Plato "the written word is poison to the mind" or something like that
nobody ever wanted to work. Although toil would be the more apt word here because work can be rewarding but they are specifically talking about unrewarding drudgery where you are pointlessly berated all the time which is toil
